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The two womoii removed the lid and pulled him up. Then Cloud- 

 wutclier's elder sister said as follows: "Iwill marry him because 1 

 saw him first." Then they led him home, and they led him into their 

 father's house. They were glad to see him. 



After they had given him something to eat he went out. And, after he 

 had walked about in the town for a while, he entered the middle house. 

 Numbers of eagle skins were hung there, and he entered one made of 

 tine feathers. He flapped his wings. He almost went through the 

 doorway. He seized the boards along the side of the door. Then 

 he came out of it quickly. And he entered his father's house. His 

 father-in-law said: *' I wonder why m}" skin tickles as if they were 

 playing with my feather clothing." He was town mother, they say. 



Next day, very early, he heard eagles making a noise. Then he went 

 out to look. The eagles sat in rows upon something raised high up in 

 front of the house. ^ On it they made a noise. After they had spent 

 some time sharpening their talons they went hunting. After they had 

 been gone for a while and evening was come they returned with spring 

 salmon in their talons. Some of them had red- cod and pieces of whale. 



Next day he heard them scream again in front of the house, and 

 he told his wife he w^anted to learn to hunt. Then she also told her 

 father. And his father-in-law said: "Now, my child, I will lend your 

 husband the one I used to go out fishing in when 1 was a youth." 

 Then he brought out a box. He picked one out of it covered with 

 small, fine feathers. And, when he gave it to her, he said to her: "Tell 

 your husband not to go toward something small which sticks out 

 near b}'." 



Then he flew seaward with them and got a whale jaw. He came in 

 before them. They caught all kinds of things. His father-in-law was 

 pleased with him. Then they cooked the whale. When they began 

 to eat it they pulled an old woman shaking with age out and said to 

 her: "Drink whale broth, old woman."' And she did as they told her. 



The day after that he flew out again with them. And he felt dif- 

 ferent (i. e., powerful). And he took a whale jaw. On the other side 

 he took a spring salmon. He flew home before all. They got all 

 sorts of things. And, when the}^ again began to eat the whale, they 

 led in the old woman, and she drank whale broth. 



When he went to hunt with them the day after he nearly touched 

 the thing which stuck out of the water with his claws and finall}' 

 seized it. After he had flapped his wings, as he held it, for a while he 

 vanished under the water. Then another seized his wings. He, too, 

 was nearly dragged under. And one brought news to the town that 

 he had seized the wrong thing. 



Then the old woman sharpened her claws which w^ere dull, saying 

 meanwhile: " Ha-i ha-i, what wrong thing did my child's (i. e., grand- 

 child's) husband get hold of?" Her wings had lost feathers [from 



